John McCain

Decades of relative peace and prosperity that American leadership has enabled in the region are at risk.

Chairman McCain, your tireless efforts to strengthen and transform our relationship with Vietnam have not only been heroic, they have been strategic.

I would like to thank you, Chairman McCain, for proposing an Asia Pacific Stability Initiative, which I hope the Trump Administration will support.

I would like to thank you, Chairman McCain, for your idea and proposal on the Asia-Pacific Stability Initiative.

We need to be clear-eyed about our long-term interests in preserving the American position, and that should be our north star.

To be clear, China's strategic intent is to chip away at decades of American security and economic primacy in Asia.

A North Korean missile with a nuclear payload capable of striking an American city is no longer a distant hypothetical.

The most immediate challenge is the situation on the Korean Peninsula.

These ideas have produced unprecedented peace and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific.

America's interests in the Asia-Pacific region are deep and enduring.

Would the witnesses agree that the abandonment of TPP was one of the biggest mistakes we have made?

This is a centipede. A shoe will drop every few days. The latest, the meeting in the Seychelles. Look, this is a requirement in my view why we need to select committee in order to get through all this because there's a lot more shoes that…

If you ignore the lessons of history, then you will know that it is not in our interest eventually to sit by and see this kind of turmoil and genocide that's taking place.

I have great confidence in this team around the president of the United States. If I'd have been asked to name a team, I couldn't have named a better one than the one we've got.

Yes, which I was puzzled by, because Syrian people obviously play no role in Bashar Assad remaining in power. It's the Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah and the Russians and the Iranians.

We have to understand who Vladimir Putin is, what he's all about do, and what he will do and what he understands. And what he understands is strength. And then best way to avoid further escalation is to show Vladimir Putin that his -- the…

Absolutely. And they're complicit in the precision guided weapons that struck the hospitals in Aleppo. Ask the White Helmets. I mean, that's a gross violation of the rules of war.

It's clear that you face a daunting array of security and governance challenges in the region, yet SOUTHCOM continues to suffer from persistent resource shortfalls that undermine efforts to confront these challenges.

The Committee meets today to receive testimony on the posture of U.S. Northern Command, Southern Command, and Strategic Command to inform its review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2017.

A return to great-power competition.

Bashar Assad and his friends, the Russians take note of what Americans say, I'm sure they took note of what our Secretary of State said just the other day that the Syrian people would be determining their own future themselves. One of the…

This is a centipede assumed would drop every few days, the latest, the meeting in the Seychelles. Look, this is the requirement in my view why we need a select committee in order to get through all this, because there's a lot more shoes…

If we're really going to get to the bottom of these things, it's got to be done in a bipartisan fashion. And as far as I could tell, Congressman Nunes killed that.

I remain hopeful that the cause of truth and justice for the Russian people will be victorious.

These patriots were fully aware of their risks. Indeed, hundreds of peaceful demonstrators were detained in a revealing sign of the insecurity of the Putin regime.